Tip-cart vehicle.



PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904.

C. PAY.

TIP CART VEHICLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 14, 1904.

no MODEL.

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PATENT OFFICE.

TIP-CART VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,518, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed June 14, 1904.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES PAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Tip-Cart Vehicles, of which the following isaspecification.

My invention relates to that class of workvehicles in which the cart-body is arranged to tip in order to unload the contents; and the invention is confined to the reach, and more particularly to an improved construction of hinge for connecting the reach to the axle-bed of the cart-body and arranged so as to permit of readily disconnecting the cart-body from the reach whenever such portions of the vehicle need repairing.

Figure 1 is atop plan View of the runninggear of a tip-cart vehicle as embodying my improvement and also indicating the position of the cart-body in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a side sectional view taken in line X X of Fig. 1, showing the normal position of the cartbody on the running-gear, together with a dotted position of the cart-body as when tipped to unload. Figs. 3, I, and 5 are detail views in perspective of my improved hinge for the running-gear of a tip-cart vehicle, Fig. 3 representing one member of the hinge, which is designed to be secured to the reach, Fig. 4 the other hinge member, which is designed to be secured to the axle-bed of the cart-body, and Fig. 5 the pin for connecting both said members together.

My invention consists in the combination, with the front and rear axles of a cart-vehicle, of a gooseneck-reach whose forward portion is pivotally connected with the front axle and its rear portion forming a support for the cart-body, which is arranged to tip upon the rear axle, and a hinge for connecting the rearaxle bed to the reach, and of the novel construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

Like characters indicate like parts.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, A represents the reach, whose forward portion is pivotally connected to the front axle b in any suitable manner, and said reach has a goose- Serial No. 212,557. (No model.)

neck, as at (a, so as to permit easy turning of the forward wheels (Z (Z.

B is the cart-body, which is mounted on the cross-piece or bed 6 of the rear axle f, said body, bed, and rear axle being secured together by the bolts g g.

it is a plate mounted on the rear portion of the reach A and secured thereto by rivets 2T 1'. Said plate h has a circular bent portion at one end thereof and which forms an eye, as at h in Fig. 3.

j j are bolts having enlarged integral hcads j j at one end thereof and their opposite portions circumferentially screw-threaded to receive a loose washer and nut f, respectively.

The bolts jj are made secure in the rearaxle bed eand arranged so that their heads j j embrace the sides of the circular bent portions of the plate it. provided with a circular opening formed in their heads and of a size to register with the eye of the plate it.

The plates It it and bolts jj, which form my improved hinge members, are connected together by pins 7:: is, which pass loosely through the eyes or openings formed therein, and said pins I: it have each an enlarged integral head it" formed at one end thereof and their opposite portions screw-threaded to receive a nut if for securing the pins in place in the manner shown in Fig. 5.

In the ordinary construction of a tip-cart vehicle a U-shaped bolt or staple is used for connecting the axle-bed to the reach, and which mode of connection often involves considerable labor to withdraw such a part from its place in order to detach the cart-body from the reach to make repairs.

By my construction of hinge it will be easily understood that all that is required on the part of the mechanic is the simple unscrewing of the nuts [U2 and withdrawing the pins it. Furthermore, by applying a gooseneck-reach to the running-gear of a cart-vehicle whose body is arranged to tip it is evident that this class of vehicle can easily be turned around in cellars or in narrow quarters where excavations are being made.

Having described my improvement, what] Said bolts j j are each claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

In a tip-cart Vehicle, the combination with the front and rear axles, of a gooseneck-reach whose forward portion is pivotally connected to the front aXle and its rear portion forming a support for the cart-body, which is arranged to tip upon the rear axle; a hinge comprising a plate secured upon the rear portion of the reach and having at one end a circular bent portion so as to form an eye; bolts adapted to be secured in the axle-bed of the cart-body 

